Here I am posting my second post! I'm so excited to share my summery of Louis L'Amour's book "The Man From the Broken Hills". I know at times I comes across rather strong in this summery but I truly couldn't help myself. Have fun! Love, Stephiphany......

The Man From the Broken Hills

The man from the broken hills is a western by Louis L’amour. And like most westerns there are hot babes that have all the talent (I’m not jealous). Robust men that have amazing aim, that always show up when the babes turn into damsels of distress. And of course there’s the wild untamed country.
Our robust muscle man in this book is Milo Talon. Milo is born with a wondering soul. But Milo has more going for him then muscles. He has a unmatched genealogy. His Talon side are of French descent, and have been known for their desire the settle the west. His mother is a Sackett, but the Sacketts are not delicate tea party lovers. They come from England and have the reputation of having more grit the hair on their heads, and a conquering attitude.
We first meet Milo on the range between babes and consequently jobs. He meets some men that hook him up with a job. But he soon finds out that his employer is and old enemy stole some cattle from his family!
But this man is a mere shell of his former self he is now “blind” (or at least thinks so). He being duty bound keeps the job and starts to work with a Mexican called Tony.
At once Milo finds a kindred spirit in Tony, but Tony knows that the best way to a mans heart is thru coffee and Mexican food. As they work together they talk about bodacious babes and missing cattle ( like babes and cattle are the same thing, these muscle men can be so insensitive)
But he does have a thing going with the cattle, all of the “young stuff” (that would be cattle under three years) are gone! Milo can’t figure it out. Could it be his so called blind employer? Tony the amazing cook? Any of the men he works with? Or could it be one of the other ranches? Especially the Balch’s who really do believe that muscle and babes are all that matter in life.
On the range Milo meets babe number one Ann Timberly (let me once again clarify that I’m not jealous. But I feel like I can relate to her a lot when it comes to attitude.) Ann like me is controlling, and stubborn, and tends to bring it all out when muscle men cross our paths. (but for me it’s a bit more lethal because it comes out for most guys not just muscle men.) She and Milo don’t have a romantic first meeting because Mils is a guy that doesn’t understand girls. After hot and rude words spew forth Ann rides off in a heated temper. (I know what’s going on in Milo’s mind he’s thinking dang she’s hot, and single!).
After many days of confusion and the being aches of love there is a box social. Milo is so excited that he even reads the book “how to win a babe in five easy ways” and he dresses up. There we meet China Ben that’s our second and final babe. The boxes went up for sale. Milo bids on Ann’s because that was tip number one in his book. He doesn’t win the box which burned his heart. But he wins another box and only a semi-cute girl. Glad for the non Mexican food he learns that the girl is of a shady history, and nobody knows her, but she knows him and tells him to watch out. He decides to keep going with the tips from his book, and uses tip number two “escort the girl home.” he doesn’t even make it to his horse before the has to fight his to take the girl home. (literally) she will let him take her only half way, but he finds tracks of young cattle on his way back. (once again I’m offended about this hole parallel of girls and cattle. I mean come on just because we sometimes eat salad means nothing.) he follow the tracks a little bit until he gets shot at. He flees from the scene.
He escapes from them and lives to tell about it. A few day latter he’s telling his tale of woe to the big bull of the ranch when he is shot in the head and knocked unconscious. At first he thinks it is love pains but soon discovers that no they are of a physical type. He lays there trying to walk but it hurts to much. After hours of marinating in blood and pain he is finally able to make it away to the cabin. When he gets there Ann is waiting for him because she thought some thing was wrong. As he is getting better the killer tries a couple of more time to kill him but Milo is a lucky duck and escapes all the attempts.
Time goes on and Ann has crush on him. He gets better and goes back to work. One of his co-workers gets lonely and decide there is more to life then sage brush. He barrows one of Milo’s shirt and set out for the mythical semi cute girl. After a few days people get concerned and tired of doing the branding alone. And so Milo sets out to find him. Milo finds him dead, Shot to death. Milo carries on to figure out why his friend was shoot at, and if it had any thing to deal with the missing cattle. He finds Ann’s horse and decides that the missing cattle is linked with Ann (thing number one cattle and girls are nothing alike. Number two just because she is a damsel doesn’t mean that she is evil).
He finds both Ann and the mysterious girl, he saves Ann and finds out that the cattle rustler, and kidnapper is mysterious girls brother (I don’t know about you but that seems evil.). After he saves Ann he goes after evil man and gets the cattle back.
After he finally wins the girl he decides that he needs to move on in life which means good-bye Ann. Even thou he brakes up with her she doesn’t hurt that much because one, half of this relationship is in his head and two, she isn’t carried off by muscles and guns. All in all it is a good book, but a little discriminating when he talks about girls as if they have no mind and they crawl on the floor eating salad as cattle do.